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Banking crisis digest week 2 January 2011
MIKE HAYWOOD'S BANKING CRISIS DIGEST
Independent weekly compilation of current internet articles and blogs
relating to Global Banking Crisis
You may not have time to read all the articles. To help you be selective, those articles which I consider an important read or viewing, I have prefixed with XXXXX
Global Debt Clock http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock
Must watch video. (ignore 9 minute introduction, lecture is 45 minutes)
XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX Professor Niall Ferguson: Empires on the Edge of Chaos http://fora.tv/2010/07/28/Niall_Ferguson_Empires_on_the_Edge_of_Chaos#fu...
General articles covering the interconnectivity of Peak Oil and economy
XXXXX XXXXX China's Growing Auto Industry Could Affect U.S. Petrol Prices http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/05/am-chinas-grow...
Global Banking crisis, economy and systemic risk
XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX Global systemic crisis: Second half of 2011 - European context and US catalyst - Explosion of the Western public debt bubble http://dollarcollapse.com/uncategorized/one-last-look-at-state-and-local...
The US as deadbeat http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2011/01/the_us...
Europe Unveils Sweeping Plans To Govern Reckless Banks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8244160...
Debt crisis: 'US and Japan are next' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8246757...
Geithner Urges US Debt Limit Increase, Warns of Default http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/geithner-urges-increase-in-debt...
Banks to pay billions in bonuses http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12131092
US National debt tops $14 trillion http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20027090-503544.html
Debt default fears will spread to US and Japan, warns Citigroup's Willem Buiter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8246757...
HSBC sees China and US leading megaboom http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8239707/HSBC-sees-China-and...
Why the World Is Financially Doomed, in Four Charts http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan11/why-financial-doom01-11.html
A Catastrophic Global Economic Breakdown May Be Unavoidable! http://www.munknee.com/2011/01/richard-duncan-a-catastrophic-global-econ...
Federal Reserve Really Purchasing Over 60% of 2011's Fiscal Deficit? http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-federal-reserve-really-purcha...
Overheating East to falter before the bankrupt West recovers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/823065...
US Credit card debt plummets as banks recover sanity about risk http://www.mybudget360.com/credit-card-withdrawal-banks-pull-financial-p...
The problem is fraud, deregulation, and vast concentration of wealth http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/business/economy/08reich.html
There are hundreds of articles each week about the continuing US Property slump. Here's a sample of them
XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX The Truth about the US Housing Market http://www.unconventionaleconomist.com/2011/01/truth-about-us-housing-ma...
XXXXX Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Foreclosures http://works.bepress.com/christopher_robertson/2/
XXXXX XXXXX New American Ghost Towns http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-connor/the-foreclosure-fraud-sca_b_8...
XXXXX XXXXX Housing bust creates new kind of declining city http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ghost-towns-20110106,0,3711336.story
House Prices Will Decline For Years http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mort-zuckerman-home-prices-will-decline...
Analysts expect further 10% fall in US property prices http://www.propertywire.com/news/north-america/us-real-estate-down-20101...
S&P warns on shadow inventory of foreclosures http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-warns-on-shadow-inventory-of-foreclo...
Banking fraud as driver of bubble http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-housing-20110103,0,...
Now is time to sell your house, before prices fall yet more http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-umberger-20110102,0,668...
Over 4.3 million loans 90+ days or in foreclosure http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/12/lps-over-43-million-loans-90-d...
Map: House price declines http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ghost-towns.eps-20110106,0,4631232...
US Foreclosure Fraud and mortgage Bond fraud
Facing Scrutiny, Banks Slow Pace of Foreclosures http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09foreclosure.html?_r=1&src=b...
The problem was fraud, not subprime http://www.businessinsider.com/how-could-a-relatively-small-number-of-su...
Top lenders set for foreclosure settlement: report http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Top-lenders-set-for-rb-1082963298.html?x=0...
Foreclosures May Be Undone by Massachusetts Ruling on Mortgage Transfers http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/foreclosures-may-be-undone-by-m...
Florida’s Killer Presentation on Foreclosure Fraud http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/01/06/floridas-killer-presentation-on-f...
Wells Fargo Loses Bid to Dismiss Fraud Claims http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/01/07/33144.htm
Goldman hit with $120M mortgage fraud suit http://ny.therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/goldman-sachs-hit-with-120m-m...
The Foreclosure Fraud Scandal Just Got Harder to Ignore http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-connor/the-foreclosure-fraud-sca_b_8...
Florida AG's Disturbing Foreclosure Fraud Presentation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/foreclosure-fraud-report-_n_805...
Foreclosure crisis hits home for all http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/09/2008157/foreclosure-crisis-hits-ho...
UK Property Market
XXXXX UK House prices 'fell in December' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12149296
Pension "time bomb” and aging population
Deflation or inflation?
XXXXX Inflation set for new high as pay slumps http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8247910/Inflation-set-for-new-hi...
“Bring Us Sugar!” U.S. Inflation And the Rest of the World http://dollarcollapse.com/inflation/bring-us-sugar-us-inflation-and-the-...
Deflation is more likely than inflation http://libertarianpapers.org/articles/2010/lp-2-43.pdf
US recessionary trends
XXXXX One Last Look at State and Local Finances http://dollarcollapse.com/uncategorized/one-last-look-at-state-and-local...
XXXXX Paul Krugman The Texas Omen http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1
US will soon be more unequal than Brazil http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/to-beat-back-poverty-pay...
Food Stamp Usage Hits New High Of 43.2 Million http://www.zerohedge.com/article/food-stamp-usage-hits-new-high-432-million
US Unemployment
What does fiscal austerity mean in practice?
Tesco Offers to Take Customers’ Jewellery for Cash, Times Reports http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-03/tesco-offers-to-take-customers-...
Fractional reserve banking
The Faults of Fractional-Reserve Banking http://mises.org/daily/4880
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Banking Crisis Digest prepared by Dr Mike Haywood, St Mabyn, Bodmin, Cornwall,UK mike@mikehaywoodart.co.uk
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